Two Chinese Characters: How to Pronounce Beijing
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@UdallIn72 Note that they pronounce Bei as something like Pei. Many centuries ago, "Pei" was only "Pe", while "jing" was pronounced like "king" in that region of China. The first Europeans in China knew in that way, Peking, and transmited so to the west. Later, native Chinese changed pronunciation to "pei" and "jing". It's represented with B and not P, because pinyin (the writing system to traslate phonetically Chinese) use "B" for "P". And so, Beijing.
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When he said Jingoism and started to wave the US flag, I lost my shit. I found that quite entertaining.
Good video, guys.
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the pronunciation of "Beijing" with a "zh" sound is one of my biggest pet peeves!
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THANK YOU for finally telling the world how to pronounce Beijing! Jesus if i had a nickle for every time I have heard Beizhing, I would be a RICH man :)
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In Italian we say "Pechino"
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Bay jing...... that was easy enough!
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Why in God's name was this EVER romanized "Peking"?
It doesn't sound like that at all!
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Cantonese exist before Mandarin by 2000 years and we say it bakging =) Southern Chinese dialects are closer to Middle age Chinese. Mandarin is highly affected by Manchurian language during 清 dynasty phonetically.
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2 mins to learn how to pronounce 2 syllables. It was entertaining.
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@Rockieoo Nope, nothing to do with Cantonese, and everything to do with the Wade Giles system of writing Chinese into European letters.
Beijing = pinyin
Peking = Wade Giles
both were meant to be pronounced in as in the video.
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